django Archives - Dylan McCall

July 10, 2010December 1, 2021

Harvest stuff for GSoC: Week 7!

Time for my bi-weekly Harvest update! Everything this time went into the gsoc-client-stuff branch.

The first thing I learned (well, decided) is that YUI has incredibly dense, loopy and uncool documentation. I guess different people are compatible with different kinds of docs. As I read the YUI stuff I just couldn’t keep it all straight for some reason. Its landing page leads off in many directions: there’s an API reference that was written and designed to put me to sleep, an Examples section that doesn’t bother to link to the API reference (but is more pleasantly written), and a lot of extra listings in between.

June 28, 2010December 1, 2021

Harvest GSoC project: week 5!

The last two weeks of my Harvest project have gone really well. It isn’t flashy and exciting and earth-shattering (yet), but I’m happy with it.

First of all, my branch now has Packages and Opportunities filters. I implemented a bunch of each, and they are resolved in order. First Harvest runs the package filters, then it filters the opportunities that belong to those packages, then it hides packages that have no visible opportunities after all that filtering.

June 12, 2010December 1, 2021

Filters are addictive! (GSoC 2010 Week 3)

The last two weeks I have spent a bit more time than I expected playing with filters, filters and more filters. The first iteration went in maybe a bit too quickly, so I have done quite a bit of clean-up. Python is being too lenient with me!

May 31, 2010December 1, 2021

Making Harvest awesome! (My GSoC 2010 project) — Week 1(ish)

It is time that I babble about my project for Google Summer of Code 2010!

Over the summer, I will be working on Harvest with Daniel Holbach as my awesome mentor. Harvest is a neat web service, built with Django, that brings together opportunities (things that need doing), from many different places on the web. Those opportunities are all neatly linked to source packages, which are, themselves, nicely described by package sets like ubuntu-desktop, unr, xubuntu and kernel.